'You are not there to push yourself to the limits':
Swimmers were also warned not to use the saunas to warm up if they got into trouble.
The lido told the BBC that although none of the cases was serious enough to require hospital treatment, the lifeguards were taken away from their other duties, putting swimmers at risk.One member of the swimmers' group said they had seen the lifeguards "calmly handle two emergencies within a 15-minute period".
She told BBC London the lido had been "rather inundated by people wanting to try out this new 'craze' of winter swimming in recent years".
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